health

CRISPR-Cas9 is a technology with the potential for an unimaginable impact on society. CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) allows scientists to edit genomes in living organisms at the cellular level by guiding a “scissor-like” protein to targeted sections of DNA within a cell, and then prompting it to alter or “edit” the DNA in some way.